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Sybil (Schreiber book)
book by Flora Rheta Schreiber
This article is about the non-fiction book about Shirley Ardell Mason's treatment for dissociative identity disorder. For the novel by Benjamin Disraeli, see Sybil (novel).
Sybil is a book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason) for dissociative identity disorder (then referred to as multiple personality disorder) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur.
The book was made into two television movies of the same name, once in and again in There have also been books published after the fact, challenging the facts of Sybil's therapy sessions. A few examples of these are SYBIL in her own words, Sybil Exposed, and After Sybil.
Summary
[edit]Mason is given the pseudonym "Sybil" by her therapist to protect her privacy. In , Sigmund Freud historian Peter J. Swales discovered Sybil's true identity.[1] Originally in treatment for social anxiety and
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 6, ) — In , the best-selling book "Sybil" detailed the psychiatric case of artist Shirley Mason, who was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. The story told by writer Flora Schreiber was later made into a made-for-TV movie starring actress Sally Field.
According to the book, which was based on taped interviews of psychotherapy sessions with Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, Mason was possessed bygd 16 different personalities as a coping mechanism for traumatic experiences. Mason, who was identified as "Sybil," suffered horrible abuse from her mother as a child.
Until she died of cancer in , Mason lived out a quiet life in a house on Henry Clay Boulevard in Lexington. When family members were clearing out the house to sell, they came across more than pieces of original artwork that Mason had locked away in her basement closet.
A collection of 40 pieces of artwork recovered from Mason's basement will be on display i
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It was a case that entranced the entire nation and, arguably, the world during the s and s. Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur, a medical doctor, and psychiatrist, previously on staff at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, presented the case of Sybil Isabel Dorsett to the nation. The case of ung Sybil resulted in a book, written by Flora Rheta Schreiber, and a TV movie simply titled Sybil. So who was Sybil? Sybil, born Shirley Ardell Mason, was born in in Dodge Center, Minnesota. Shirley&#;s father was Mr. Walter W. Mason and her mother was Mrs. Martha Alice Atkinson. Martha was better known as Mattie but, in Schreiber&#;s book, she was simply referred to as &#;Hattie.&#; For the sake of brevity, Martha will be referred to as &#;Mattie&#; through this brev. Mattie was often referred to as being strange or weird when she lived in Minnesota. Her neighbors would remark on her bizarre laugh and they (the neighbors) would report that Mattie would walk at night and look into windows. Add